The Rant: Riley Cooper is an idiot, but what's the point of releasing him?

What has been a bad offseason for former Florida football players got that much worse on Wednesday. Video from a Kenny Chesney concert showed Eagles receiver Riley Cooper using a racial slur because he couldn’t get backstage.

The stream of apologies followed, along with the calls for Cooper’s job and a bounty put on him by, of all people, Marcus Vick. Let’s slow this train down a minute.

It’s ridiculous to think that Cooper, who has zero prior incidents like this, needs to get the Paula Deen scrubdown.

He’s been fined by the Eagles, skewered by the NFL and rightfully taken apart on social media. Cooper acted like a fool and used one of the most offensive and degrading terms out there. Punish him. He deserves the heat. But those out for blood, what does cutting Cooper really accomplish? Nothing at all.